TECUMSEH — The Byng High School baseball team didn’t take any prisoners during a Tuesday night district road matchup with Tecumseh.
The Pirates erupted for 14 runs in the top of the third inning and sank the Savages 22-1.
Byng improved to 14-1 overall and stayed unbeaten in District 4A-1 play at 8-0. Tecumseh slid to 7-11 and 2-8.
Coach Jake Wellington’s club is back in action Friday at The Shed Classic Festival in Kingfisher. Byng will face Perkins at 12:15 p.m. and host Kingfisher at 4:45 p.m.
Byng 22, Tecumseh 1
Byng jumped out to leads of 5-0 and 8-1 before the big third-inning volley.
The Pirates piled up 16 total hits, including six that went for extra bases. They also took advantage of 11 walks and three hit batters.
Preston Welch and Ezekiel Griffin both hit home runs for Byng. Welch hit a solo home run in the top of the first inning to account for the first BHS run of the game and Griffin hammered a three-run shot in the top of the third frame. Welch finished 1-for-2 with two walks, two RBIs and four runs scored and Griffin went 2-for-2 with three RBIs and three runs scored. He was also hit twice.
Kendon Wood finished 2-for-3 with a double, a walk, two RBIs and three runs scored and Lane Alexander finished 2-for-3 with a double, a walk, two RBIs and three runs scored.
Gage Streater ended up 1-for-1 with a double and three RBIs and Preston Tapia also clubbed a double, drove in a run and scored once for the visitors.
Hagen Graham ended up 2-for-2 with a walk, two RBIs and three runs scored for the Pirates and Ryan Shelton finished 2-for-3 with a walk, an RBI and two runs scored. Callen Leslie went 1-for-2 with a walk, three RBIs and a run scored.
Tecumseh finished with two hits — doubles by Kadyn Prado and Kruz Shirey.
Kendon Wood and Brycen Smith saw mound duty for Byng. Wood struck out two, walked four and allowed one earned run in 1.1 innings. Smith tossed the final 2.2 shutout innings.
No. 2 Calera holds off Latta
CALERA — Latta limited Calera to just two hits but the Panthers couldn’t generate enough offense in a 2-1 road loss to the Bulldogs Tuesday night.
Coach Dillon Atkinson’s club, No. 4 in Class 2A-1, fell to 11-5 while No. 2 Calera improved to 12-1. The Panthers travel to Wister — ranked No. 3 in Class A-1 — at 5:30 p.m. Friday.
Calera 2, Latta 1
After Latta left the bases loaded with one out in the top of the first inning, Calera pushed across two runs in the bottom half.
Logan Bumgarner walked to lead off the bottom of the first, went to second on an error and scurried down to third on a wild pitch. After a walk to Zaiden Craige, Bumgarner scored on a sacrifice fly from Jaron Varner to put Calera on top 1-0.
Craige later scored when Talon Rose hit a ground ball to shortstop to put the home team ahead 2-0.
Latta put together a two-out rally in the top of the third inning. Darien Miller was hit by a pitch and scored on a triple by Reese Littlefield that trimmed the CHS advantage to 2-1. Littlefield was left standing on third.
The Panthers got runners at first and second with one out in the top of the fifth inning after base hits by Kaiden Goolsby and Landon Fortner but again left a runner at third base.
Varner reached on an error and later scored on a sac fly by Darren Johnson for a Calera insurance run in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Littlefield and Fortner had two hits each for the Panthers. Littlefield got the start on the mound for Latta. He struck out six, walked three and allowed two earned runs in 5.1 solid innings. Gestin Pollard recorded the final two outs for the locals.
Gavin Chaffin picked up the pitching win. He struck out two, didn’t walk a batter and surrendered just one earned run in six innings.
